<div dir="ltr"><div>LGPL's big thing is the linking stuff, right?<br><br><br></div>Yeah, this is fine by me.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Alvin Wong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alvinhochun+krita@gmail.com" target="_blank">alvinhochun+krita@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Boud,<br>
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I'm fine with relicensing my few lines of contributions to LGPL.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Alvin<br>
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P.S. Please note that my commit email address doesn't have `+krita` in<br>
it in case if you're checking the commit log.<br>
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2017-01-05 17:13 GMT+08:00 Boudewijn Rempt <<a href="mailto:boud@valdyas.org">boud@valdyas.org</a>>:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Umpteenth draft of this mail, but I think we should consider relicensing<br>
> the GPL code in Krita to LGPL.<br>
><br>
> One reason is that now that Krita is on its own, the mix of LGPL library<br>
> code inherited from koffice/calligra and GPL library code inherited from<br>
> Krita makes it hard to move code around; like we just did in the svg<br>
> branch, creating the kritacommand library from code from krita/image<br>
> and libs/kundo2. That code needs to be relicensed to LGPL before we<br>
> merge the branch, of course.<br>
><br>
> Another reason is that there are too many macOS users who get confused<br>
> when they install an application that's not in the app store, and we<br>
> cannot publish GPL software in the app store. I wish I could just shrug<br>
> that off, and I've done that until 3.1, but it's getting quite a<br>
> support burden.<br>
><br>
> I haven't found a script yet that will figure out who owns copyright<br>
> on the original GPL'ed krita code only -- running things like git fame<br>
> only works on the whole repo, most of which is LGPL already...<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Boudewijn Rempt | <a href="http://www.krita.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.krita.org</a>, <a href="http://www.valdyas.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.valdyas.org</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Wolthera</div>
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